Dear Readers, someone asked me recently: “Why is inkt|art necessary? Does it say something about the state of comics that female creators need their own journal? Or are you just partial to the art of women?” I laughed, as I usually do, when the answer is obvious or when it’s complicated. We’re two years and …

BY ABIGAIL LLOYD click an image below to begin gallery show Abigail Lloyd is a welder and artist living in Brooklyn and sometimes Oakland, by way of Maine. In her work, she studies American mythology, queer intimacies, feelings, negativity and triangles. Abigail’s work takes shape variously in metal, pixels, and pen+paper. She received her B.A. … Continue reading →

BY NICOLE HOLLANDER I’ve been working on a visual memoir called In the Old Neighborhood, which is a treatment of the ideas I worked on at Ragdale in 2010. I’m concentrating on the courtyard section of the building and the 3 families that lived in those apartments. My family lived in the middle apartment. The … Continue reading →

BY K-FAI STEELE The jólasveinarnir, or Yule Lads, are Iceland’s version(s) of Santa. According to legend, thirteen of them visit children on the twelve nights leading up to Christmas. Depending on whether the child has been good or bad, they leave toys or rotting potatoes in their shoes. The jólasveinarnir were originally a form of … Continue reading →

BY DONNA KUHN Click an image below to begin a gallery show of Donna Kuhn’s visual poetry Donna Kuhn is an author, poet, dancer, visual and video artist living in California. Her work has been widely published and exhibited in the United States and internationally. Her work can be seen on her blogs: http://picassogirl.tumblr.com and http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.comContinue reading →

BY CAITLIN CASS Caitlin Cass makes art that elevates the importance of mistakes and uncertainty throughout history. Working across mediums, she creates comics, prints, animations and counterfeit museum exhibits that celebrate failure. For the past five years she has drawn and published a bimonthly comic periodical called Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent. Her … Continue reading →

A WORDLESS POEM BY CATHERINE KYLE Catherine Kyle’s graphic narratives have appeared in The Rumpus, Gravel, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. Her poetry and fiction have appeared and are forthcoming in Superstition Review, WomenArts Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her hybrid-genre chapbook Feral Domesticity, which includes poetry, fiction, and illustrations was released by Robocup Press in Summer … Continue reading →